A medical team is preparing for deployment to the Gulf. Speaker: Colonel John Gardener (C.O.I Medical Support Team)
The government has halted New Zealand's multi million dollar live sheep trade with Saudi Arabia. The last shipment were considered to be diseased and rejected, a month later the sheep were sold to Jordan instead. Speaker John Falloon, (Agriculture Minister)
Freezing workers at Mataura Southland have to the end of the week to decide whether to sacrifice up to 30% of their pay to keep the works open. Speaker: Roger Driver, (Plant Manager).
Freezing workers in Wellington narrowly escaped injury as ammonia leaked from a leaky valve. Fire fighters repaired the leak.
Conservationists have renewed warnings that hundreds of rare sea lions and birds will die during the squid season which has just begun in the sub Antarctica. Many will be caught by trawl nets. Conservationists are angry that other safer methods are not used instead. Speaker: Alan Tennyson: (Forest & Bird Protection Society)